Literature-In-English Exam Past Questions and Answers | JAMB, WAEC and NECO

Literature in English is the study of works written in the English language. It includes all forms of writing, such as novels, plays, short stories, and poetry. This subject involves exploring and analyzing these texts to understand their themes and meanings.

• Question 101: This question is based on General Literary Principles.
  A short narrative or lyrical poem intended to be sung is a Options:
  A) leich
  B) lay
  C) lauda
  D) letrilla
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 102:

  This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.'I wish him luck with his infidel friends But he must remember that there is only one moon at a time, one sun at a time'

  The speaker in the passage above is referring to a

  Options:
  A) moon gazer
  B) slave raider
  C) muezzin
  D) usurper
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 103:

  One of the following writers is better known as a playwright than as a novelist

  Options:
  A) C. Achebe
  B) C. Ekwensi
  C) W. Soyinka
  D) J.P Clark
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 104:

  This question is based on Camara Laye's The African Child.

  The author makes the reader believe his story by using

  Options:
  A) a confessional style
  B) elements of humour
  C) detailed description
  D) another narrator
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 105:

  This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man.

  ...What would Sergius, the hero of Slivnitza, say if he saw me now? What would Sergius, the apostle of higher love, say if he saw me now?

  What would the half dozen Sergiuses who keep popping in and out of this handsome figure of mine say if they caught us here?''

  These questions are addressed to

  Options:
  A) Louka
  B) Sophia
  C) Raina
  D) Catherine
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 106:

  This question is based on Amma Darko's Faceless.

  Kabria's second child is

  Options:
  A) Ottu
  B) Adade
  C) Essie
  D) Obea
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 107:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  The technique used in bringing the plot of a play to an abrupt end is called

  Options:
  A) deus ex machina
  B) endnote
  C) climax
  D) denouement
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 108:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  The device used by writers to give truths by indirection is called

  Options:
  A) irony
  B) paradox
  C) hyperbole
  D) satire
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 109:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  'Whereat: with blade, with bloody blameful blade.

  He bravely broached his boiling bloody best'.

  The dominant figure of speech in the lines above is

  Options:
  A) simile
  B) alliteration
  C) assonance
  D) repetition
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 110:

  This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's she Stoops to Conquer.

  The epilogue of the play deals with the impermanence of

  Options:
  A) nature
  B) friendship
  C) womanhood
  D) love
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  The correct answer is D .